What gets me up in the morning is either my daughter crawling into bed or my sons having to go to school. I love my family. They need a certain level of economic resources. They need my time. They need my attention. That's why I do what I do...and don't do what I don't do what I don't do.

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Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

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Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

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The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

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Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

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If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

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Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

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Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping

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In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

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Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

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Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.

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Greatness is won, not awarded.

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Just be nice, take genuine interest in the people you meet, and keep in touch with people you like. This will create a group of people who are invested in helping you because they know you and appreciate you.

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The hard part is implementing the decision, not making it.

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Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people's hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better. The difference between enchantment and simple sales is that with enchantment you have the other person's best interests at heart, too.

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The hardest thing about getting started, is getting started.

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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

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Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

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Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

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The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

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One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.

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